Caught short by the President's fund-freezing order were foreign Cinemactresses llona Massey (Hungarian), Ingrid Bergman (Swedish), Michele Morgan (French), and Directors Rene Clair and Jean Renoir, both French. Miss Massey, given $125 out of her weekly $2,500 pay check, thought she could get along, made no bones about admitting she once lived on $6 a month as a Budapest seamstress.

Miss Morgan, however, hired a lawyer, got her weekly ante upped to $500. Robert Montgomery reported for brief active duty as a Naval Reserve lieutenant.

Entry in the log book: "His real name is Henry." Gene Tierney's parents sued to block her signing a new movie contract, lost the case. Mrs. Tierney, interviewed, added that her daughter's recent elopement with Count Oleg Cassini, Hollywood dress designer, was "silly." Nancy Kelly, 20, onetime child star, called it quits with Actor Edmond O'Brien, 25, sued him for divorce. John Barrymore got into his umpteenth public scene, was delivered to the great outdoors by a nightclub bouncer.

Heavyweight Billy Conn, the almost-champ, took a $1,200 diamond ring on approval, promptly lost it.

C'est la Guerre

The Duchess of Windsor's ex-husband, Ernest Simpson, quit Britain's Home Guard, joined the regular Army as lieutenant in a technical unit, identity withheld. At the close of World War I, he was a lieutenant in the swank Coldstream Guards. Bridget Elizabeth Hitler, the Fuehrer's Irish-born sister-in-law, went to work in Manhattan for British War Relief. Said she: Adolf "should be killed by slow torture, a little bit every day." Mme. Simone Mathieu, France's top tenniste, learned in London that Vichy had condemned her to death for boosting the Free French. Exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia got along as best he could in England on one pair of pajamas, one pair of shoes and kindred shortages, while awaiting his clothes-ration coupons. The pajamas were washed and dried at home between reveille and taps. St. Louis' music-loving shoe millionaire, Oscar Johnson, gave his occupation as "unemployed," got himself drafted at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Army shoes he approved, but asked if he might change his underwear twice a day. Thomas Mann's daughter, Erika Mann, Clippered to England from New York to broadcast over BBC to Germany. Burglars who knew their priorities ransacked the Philadelphia home of Solicitor General Francis Biddle, took, among other Biddle boodle, a fine collection of aluminum pots & pans, While Hitler's Armies raced for Moscow, Congressman Clarence J. Brown surprised an Ohio radio audience with word that "opinion in Washington is that there will be no war between Russia and Germany." The speech was an electrical transcription that he forgot to change when Germany struck. /1 From Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business, the Royal Norwegian Government bought his Maryland estate for $252,000, turned it over to Crown Princess Martha, who prepared to settle down for the duration. Home from camp on a short leave, Private William McChesney Martin Jr., ex-president of the New York Stock Exchange, told reporters he'd expected Army service to be "something like a year in jail," but liked it fine. His sole beef: setting-up exercises before breakfast. Senator Burton K. Wheeler chucked a speaking date in interventionist Atlanta, went to bed with a whopping boil.

Town fathers of Bethel, Conn, cracked down on oil-rich Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr. and his ex-hat-check-girl wife for grazing sheep on their lawn. A new zoning law took care of that; still undisposed of, however, were the neighbors' other complaints: that he kept twelve dogs, let the motors of his cars run all night, never turned off the house lights, and had a picket fence that looked like a rollercoaster.

Newport

The Newport Casino, having swallowed its pride and opened its tennis courts to all who could pay, has swallowed again and let a Naval officers' club come right indoors. Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess Miguel (Anita Stewart) de Braganza plans to auction off household effects that include a Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait. In brief, what with death and taxes. . . .

The bitter-mouthed woman who finally laughed in Ninotchka has been teaching her much-maligned feet a few things. So the refrain of the next big Garbo picture may be: "Garbo dances!"

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